Somali News Update -Saturday - June 8, 2013

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 18 people have been killed in gunbattles in southern Somalia's Kismayo, residents said on Saturday, in the heaviest fighting the disputed port city has seen in more than four years.

Somali News Update -Wednesday - June 5, 2013

London (CNN) -- Police are investigating whether anti-Muslim sentiments were behind a fire early Wednesday that left a Somali community center in north London badly damaged. The fire in the Muswell Hill neighborhood is being treated as suspicious, the Metropolitan Police said.